I know I've said this before, I'm not one for these- but I really like some of the questions.
1. Where were you born?
Peru, IL.
2. How do you identify ethnically or culturally?
I’m white. My family’s been here for a few generations, and I’ve had little exposure to any other culture besides that in my family. I certainly wouldn’t go as far to say that my family has any culture from where they came from- I don’t really know.
3. What was an early cultural experience?
I don’t really have one that’s early.
4. What was an early experience of cultural difference?
I think the only thing I can say is people speaking Spanish in the McDonalds where I work.
5. Where did your name come from?
My parents. I don’t know anything beyond that.
6. Share a nickname. Where did it come from?
Huesos, it means bones. It was given me in Spain because of my fascination with them and desire to collect them.
7. What was your maternal grandmother's name and what is one
memory you have of her? Maternal, meaning on mom’s side? Well, my really real grandma died when my mom was 11, so I didn’t know her- the person my grandpa married after that I know was my grandma, and when I was little I remember calling her by her name instead of grandma since that what I heard (or think I heard, now) other people calling her.
8. What language besides English do you know or have you tried
learning? Spanish. It’s my major.
9. What was one television show you watched after school or when you were in elementary school? Aladdin and Power Rangers.
10. What kind of music did your parents listen to when you were a child or teenager? My dad liked alternative rock, like pearl jam and u2, Bruce Springsteen, stuff like that.
11. What is one cultural tradition you currently observe? We go to my paternal grandpa’s house on Christmas Eve.
12. What is one cultural tradition you experienced growing up? That, and fish fry’s at my grandpa’s house.
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Peru, IL.
2. How do you identify ethnically or culturally?
I’m white. My family’s been here for a few generations, and I’ve had little exposure to any other culture besides that in my family. I certainly wouldn’t go as far to say that my family has any culture from where they came from- I don’t really know.
3. What was an early cultural experience?
I don’t really have one that’s early.
4. What was an early experience of cultural difference?
I think the only thing I can say is people speaking Spanish in the McDonalds where I work.
5. Where did your name come from?
My parents. I don’t know anything beyond that.
6. Share a nickname. Where did it come from?
Huesos, it means bones. It was given me in Spain because of my fascination with them and desire to collect them.
7. What was your maternal grandmother's name and what is one
memory you have of her? Maternal, meaning on mom’s side? Well, my really real grandma died when my mom was 11, so I didn’t know her- the person my grandpa married after that I know was my grandma, and when I was little I remember calling her by her name instead of grandma since that what I heard (or think I heard, now) other people calling her.
8. What language besides English do you know or have you tried
learning? Spanish. It’s my major.
9. What was one television show you watched after school or when you were in elementary school? Aladdin and Power Rangers.
10. What kind of music did your parents listen to when you were a child or teenager? My dad liked alternative rock, like pearl jam and u2, Bruce Springsteen, stuff like that.
11. What is one cultural tradition you currently observe? We go to my paternal grandpa’s house on Christmas Eve.
12. What is one cultural tradition you experienced growing up? That, and fish fry’s at my grandpa’s house.
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May be reproduced for educational, noncommercial purposes, citing Assets for Colorado Youth ns thp